Lancaster High School head football coach Bennie McMurray, fresh off a 31-3 home loss to second-ranked Rock Hill on Friday night, was ready to press on.

The Memorial Stadium scoreboard reflected a third straight defeat, but McMurray was noting the positives and looking ahead.

“We still have some bright spots,” McMurray said. “By no means are we happy with this score, but I thought our effort was there. I thought we fought hard against an outstanding football team. The difference was that they made plays and we didn’t.”

The Lancaster County District 6 Masonic Lodges would like to thank the young men of the Red Rose Council No. 162 Knights of Pythagoras organization for donating their time to help HOPE of Lancaster County with the recent Feed the Children event.

Hopefully, our children have set an example by helping others. This was an opportunity to expose our teenagers to circumstances they may or may not have encountered in their lives.

It is evident that Lancaster County has great teachers. We met several of them just prior to the start of the 2009-10 Lancaster County School District term. Then, earlier this month three county art teachers earned state awards.

Each year the school district honors four teachers at its Celebrate Great Teaching Awards. The presentations are made as part of a kickoff assembly to launch the new school year.

The awards include the district’s top teacher along with a winner from the high school, middle school and elementary levels as well as a beginner teacher.

I would like to thank the Lancaster Community for supporting United Way of Lancaster County in our first Stuff the Bus school supply drive. Thanks to Kim Humphries and her associates at Barnett Family Practice for spearheading this project and garnering support from all the other local businesses who served as collection sites: American Home Patient, Carolina Chiropractic and Wellness, Health Springs Dental Associates, Hi Lites, Lancaster Jewelers and State Farm Insurance – Janis Mathis.

My name is Deborah Sims and I have been through an experience that I think would benefit a lot of people.

My daughter and I have been on our own for four and one-half years now. It hasn’t been a smooth journey for us. We have had to move several times. We lost our car for about six months. In the last two years, 12 people in our family died.